Fixed Safari Autofill on localhost

After updating to Yosemite, which updated Safari to version 8, autofill stopped working for localhost. After some searching, it appears that this is due new security rules for Safari and OS X. Of course, that didn’t stop me from trying to get this working again as it made developing on localhost very cumbersome. The fix is pretty simple.

All you need to do is edit your /etc/hosts file and add a fully-qualified domain name alias for 127.0.0.1. Here’s how mine looks: